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The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

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This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.

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“The Invaders”15 pages

  • p. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
  • p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
  • p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
  • p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to yield Crete to the invaders…
  • p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
  • p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
  • p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
  • p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
  • p. 493 …Its nickel and chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King believed that the…
  • p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
  • p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
  • p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them the hopes of Admiral…
  • p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
  • p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma, already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
  • p. 633 …to the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct support of the invading force. A…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 627-36
training of technical personnel, memo for
Gen. Chaney, CG SPOBS from Maj.
Gordon P. Saville, I Dec. 1941.
70. VIII BC Diary, 15 May 1942;h . ,
Eaker to CG Eighth AF, 19 June 1942.
71. History, Eighth Air Force, I,
285-88.
72. Ltr., Eaker to CG USAFBI, 9
May 1942;ltr., Eaker to Duncan, 10 May
'942.
73. Ltr., Eaker to Duncan, 10 May
1942.
74. History, Eighth Air Force, I,
280-83.
75. Ltr., Eaker to CG Eighth AF, 19
June 1942.
76. Accommodations of US. Army
Air Forces in the United Kingdom.
Notes of Meeting in the Air Ministry on
28.5.42.
77. Ltr., Eaker to CG USAFBI, 17
May 1942.
78. History, Eighth Air Force, I,
79. Ltr., Eaker to CG USAFBI, 17
June 1942.
80. Ltr., Spaatz to Eaker, 22 May
I942*
81. AAFRH-2, p. 77; G O 28, Hq.
AAB, Bolling Field, 4 July 1942.
82. History, VlTI Air Force Com-
posite Command, 4 July 1942-15 Feb.
83. Among the special missions during
1941-42 were those of General Brett,
Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce, Col. S.C. God-
frey, Maj. G.P. Saville, Col. J.H. Hicks,
and Col. Eugene H. Beebe.
84. Interview with A/Cdre. Sharp,
DC/S, Eighth AF by B.C. Hopper, 1 2
Oct. 1943; VIII BC Diary, I July, 14
Aug. 1942.
85. Bomber Command Plan, pp. 11-12.
86. AWPD/I, Tab 5 (a), Sec. 11, Pt.
111, App. 11, p. I.
87. Ltr., Harris, RAFDEL to Arnold,
I I Dec. 1941.
88. See, for instance, memo for C/S
SPOBS from Col. Donald Davison, Engi-
neer, SPOBS, 5 Nov. 1941;Lt. Col. Edgar
E. Glenn, Report on Visit to Northern
2 8 & 9 2 .
1944,pp. 13-16.
740
Ireland, 27 Nov. 1941;memo for CG
AFCC and CG AAF from Col. S.C.
Godfrey, Engineer Officer, AFCC, n.d.
but probably Dec. 1941.
89. Ltr., Chaney to WD, 17 Dec.
'94'.
90. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, I Mar. 1942;
ltr., Eaker to Arnold, 5 Mar. 1942.
91. Sources in n. 90; also Eaker Diary,
4, 1 1 Mar., 6 May 1942.
92. Accommodations of US. AAF, as
cited in n. 76.
93. R.A.F. Stations T o Be Handed
Over T o Americans, A/M (Tentative
List).
94. Air Ministry, Joint Organization
and Maintenance (United States) (S.D.
348), June 1942 (JOMUS), Sec. XLIII.
95. History, Engineer Sec., as cited in
n. 29, p. I.
96. History, USSTAF, 111, chap. i,
23-25, 54-61.
97. Bomber Command Plan, p. 3; VIII
BC Diary, 14 July 1942;Eaker Report,
p. 2 .
98. Ltr., L.G.S. Reynolds, Air Min-
istry to Sec., US. Embassy, London, 27
June 1941.
99. Ltr., C/AAF to Brett, 19 Aug.
194'.
roo. Ibid.
1 0 1 . Msg. $49, AGWAR to SPOBS,
1 1 Sept. 1941.
1 0 2 . Memo for Brett from SPOBS, I
Oct. 1941;ltr., McNarney to Brett, 6
103.Msg. $857, SPOBS to AGWAR
104.Msg. #498, Arnold to Brett, 7
105. Memo for McNarney from Brett,
106.Letter of Intent, Col. W.F.
Volandt, Hq. AAF to Lockheed Corp.,
3 Jan. 1942; msg. #248, AGWAR to
SPOBS, 28 Dec. 1941;msg. $672, SPOBS
to AGWAR, 28 Feb. 1942;Contract #DA
W535 ac-1507, War Dept. and Lockheed
Aircraft Corp.
107. Memo for McNarney from Brett,
OCt. 1941.
(Brett to Arnold), 24 Oct. 1941.
NOV.1941.
1 2 NOV.1941.

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